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From: emmayche@dhw68k.cts.com (Mark Hartman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Think C polymorphism problem
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.054124.15913@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 17 Mar 91 05:41:24 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.233602.27014@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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dmmg1176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David M Marcovitz) writes of a problem where a
method in a superclass wants to call a method which is overridden by a 
subclass; however, the code which winds up getting run is the method that
lives in the superclass.

It would probably help if you would post the exact way that you are calling
the method for which override is not working.  However, I have never had any
problem by using the form

          this->TheAuxMethod();

If you omit the "this->", THINK C believes that you're trying to call the
method from the current class (see page 188; it's stated badly, but you have
to read carefully).

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